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PLAYING-CARDS.

Speeication of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed August 2, 1906. Serial No. 328,907.

To all whom. t 'muy concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. WARD, a. citizen of the United States,residing at Chippewa Lake, in the county of Mecosta and State ofMichigan, have invented a new and uselul Improvement in Playing-Cards,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a card gaine and the object of the inventionis a game of this character which may be either amusing or instructiveaccording to the taste of the player.

The invention consists of a game as hereinalter described, pointed outin the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, :in which,

Figures l, 22, 3, 4, 5 and 6 show face views of the cards belonging toone suit. Figs. 7, S, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are i ace views of cards ofanother suit. Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 are i'ace viewsillustrating 4each one card of a suit', the card from each of six suitsbeing shown.

In these drawings A represents a question card which bears at the topthe word Quiz- O, the. numeral 1, to indicate the number of the suit,and a suitable question, which question may either be of an amusing orinstructive character. A illustrate four cards also belonging to thesame suit as card A, and having the word Quiz O at the top, and thenumeral 1 to indicate the suit and each of these cards contains twoanswers to a question contained on a question card. of another suit. A2indicates what will be termed a star card, which contains the wordQuiz-O at the top, the numeral 1 to indicate the suit, one answer to aquestion upon a question card of a different suit, and the reresentation of a star and numerals to in 'cate the value of the saidstar card. In the same manner B indicates a question card of a secondsuit, B the four answer cards containing two answers each, B2 the starcard having thereon one answer, a representation of a star and thenumeral 4 0', indicating the value of said star card. C indicates ananswer card of suit four, D an answer card of suit 3, E an answer cardfrom suit 6, F an answer card from suit 7, G an answer card from suit 8and I-I a star card belonging to suit number 10. From an examination ofthese cards, it will be obvious that there are ten suits in the deck,each ol which consists of 'six cards,

making sixty cards altogether, and the gaine is designed to be played byten persons but may be ,pla yed by a smaller number by withdrawing someoi' the suits. j-

By referring to sheets 1 and 2 of the drawing, it will be noticed thateach suit ol six cards is made up of 'a question card and the fouranswer cards having two answers therequestion cards of a different suitand one star card having one question and a numeral indicating the Vahleof the card.

The game is played as follows:-Six cards are. distributed by the dealerto the various players or sixty cards in all, assuming that there areten players. Each player' oxamines the face of the cards dealt to himand when allol' the cards have been dealt, the players trade or exchangecards, each player trading one of his cards for another card, the faceof which is unseen by him. The object of the trading is to acquire sixcards, all of which belong to the same suit. As soon as a layer holds inhis hands, six cards all bearing at the top the saine numeral the playercalls out Quiz-G- and the trading is then stopped, the party holding thecomplete suit puts to the other player the question carried upon hisquestion card. ,The player to whom the question is put must answer fromthe answers contained upon cards held in his hand.

Various rules maybe adopted for counting points in the game as for examle, the party who gets what is known as the uizvohand will rget the starnumber of the suit held by him, and y for every incorrect or mislitanswer ven to one of his questions, the party having the Quiz-0 handmakes 5, and if thel player failed to make answer, the party put-- tingthe question receives 10. For a correct answer he receives nothing.. Theother layers may also count. the highest star num- )er held by them. Anyother suitable rules lfor counting points or scoring may be adopted asdesired by the layers.

Having thus fully escribed my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is ,1. A deck of playin plurality ofsuitseac suit consisting of a plurality of cards, one of said cardsbeing a question card, one a star card and the remainon, which answersare to questions uponv IOO cards consisting oF a ing-cards of the suithaving answers to ques- 'tions printed thereon, the said answers beingranswers adapted to fit question cards of a, to questions of a suitdifferent from that to dierent suit as and for the purpose set forth.which the answer Cards belong, I

2. A deck of lplaying cards consisting of a HENRY C' WARD' 5 pluralityof suits, eac-h suit Consisting of one I VVtnesses:

question card, one star card, and four anu g C. L. GRANT,

swer cards, the answer cards having thereon l I. 0. WARD.

